14 December 2011

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 14DEC2011

The 'must see' holiday lights in Georgia tonight: the Geminids meteor showers
Examiner.com
Get Out is also reporting that choosing a safe place to view the meteor shower tonight should be your first priority, since you will not have a good view unless you go somewhere away from bright city lights...into the dark. ...




Geminid meteor shower: why spectacular light show puzzles scientists
Christian Science Monitor
Gemenid meteor shower watchers can't figure out where all the material in the event comes from. Asteroid 3200 Phaethon, the apparent source of the Gemenid meteorshower, doesn't seem to shed enough rock and dust to account for the shower's intensity. ...

Geminid Meteor Shower: Shooting Stars Tuesday, Wednesday
ABC News
By NED POTTER (@NedPotterABC) A meteor from the Geminids meteor shower enters the Earth's atmosphere past the stars Castor and Pollux (two bright stars, R),above Southold, New York, Dec. 12, 2009. (Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images) Stay up late, ...
Geminid meteor shower peaks tonight, but moonlight - again - to interfere
Washington Post (blog)
By Jason Samenow From NASA: “This fireball, caused by a Geminid meteor, is one of the largest ever recorded.” (Wally Pacholka/AstroPics.com via NASA ) The Geminid meteor shower, one of the year's top night light shows, peaks tonight. ...


Loveland weather: Clearing for meteor shower?
ReporterHerald.com
The annual Geminid Meteor shower will take place tonight. Hopefully skies will cooperate and allowing decent viewing conditions. Look to the eastern sky after 10 tonight through sunrise tomorrow for peak viewing. We could see up to 20 to 40 meteors per ...


Meteor races across the evening sky.
Examiner.com
For those residing in the Victor area that happened to be outside that evening they may have seen ameteor engulfed in green glow of several feet in diameter trailed by a fiery display of white light as it made its rapid descent to the ground. ...


The 2011 Geminid Meteor Shower - NASA Science
The Geminid meteor shower peaks on Dec. 13th and 14th. The nearly full Moon will interfere with the display, but not obliterate it. Forecasters expect observers ...
science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at.../13dec_geminids/


Arizona Geology: Meteor Crater LiDAR data available
By Lee Allison
A LiDAR data set for Meteor Crater, Arizona is publicly available via the OpenTopography facility at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. The data were collected in March 2010 by the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) ...

Arizona Geology


Experiment to Reveal How Key Elements Were Forged
SpaceRef Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:34 AM PST
Ernst K. Zinner, PhD has received a three-year, $1,380,000 grant from

 the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to study
 presolar grains in a sample of the Murchison meteorite ...



2011 Geminid Meteor Shower Visible Thru Bright ...
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Using his south sky video camera, amateur astronome
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 John Chumack captured Geminids ...
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